Lord Justice Treacy said: ‘We readily understand that this is the sort of case that arouses public concern.

‘If there are public concerns going beyond this case then it may well be appropriate for the wider issue to be the subject of detailed consideration and consultation by the Sentencing Council in the future.

‘It is open to the Secretary of State for Justice or other interested bodies to invite the Sentencing Council to do so.’

Mr Young suffered a fractured skull and died the next day in Southampton Hospital.

His mother branded the sentence an ‘absolute joke’.

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